Driving belt



June 7, 1932. p B, E S 1,862,198

' DRIVING BELT Filed Nov. 16, 1951 =3 5 INVENTOR. J Pal: I B Reel 6C5,

ATTORNEY5 Fatented d e I, 1932,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL B. REEVES, OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO REEVES FULLEY COMPANY, 01' COLUMBUS, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA DRIVING BELT Application filed November 16, 1931. Serial No. 575,265. g

My invention relate to improvements in edge-drive belts which, without sacrificing longitudinal strength or lateral flexibility, will have a higher power transmission capacity than has heretofore been found possible with belts of this type. I

My invention relates articularly to that type of belt which is ormed of a flexible band reinforced transversely by cross blocks the op osite ends of which have inclined friction aces. 'In such a belt the transverse blocks are necessarily spaced from each other lengthwise of the beltand, at high speeds such a belt chatters on the friction cones with which it is used. My improved belt eliminates this tendency to chatter.

The accompanym drawing illustrates an embodiment of my mvention.

Fig. 1 is a partlal plan view, partially in horizontal section, of my improved belt and cooperative portlons of a speed-varying transmission of well-known form;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation, in partial section, of the parts shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section, on a scale larger than the scales of Figs. 1 and 2, of one form of my improved belt;

Fig. 4 is a similar section of another form; Fig 5 is a similar section of a third form, and ig. 6 is a fragmentary side elevation with parts broken away.

My belt comprises a main body 1 which, lengthwise, must be capable of transmitting the maximum sufliciently laterally flexible to permit practically indefinite repeated transverse flexures without the expenditure of too much power. In eneral this element 1 is most conveniently ormed of standard rubber belting which is, as is well known, a longitudinally strong, laterally readily flexible, cotton webbing impregnated and coated with rubber. I shall therefore hereafter refer to this element 1 as a web, although it should'be understood that it may be of a non-web like material so long as it possesses the necessary qualities 0 Ion 'tudinal strength and lateral flexibility.

uch a web, when wide enough to trans- 60 mit desired forces is not suificlently rigid tensional force to which the belt is to be subjected, and which must be transversely to receive desired forces edgew1se and it has heretofore been customary to transversely reinforce such webs by cross blocks 2 and 3, (as in Fig. 3), where the ends 5 of the blocks are inclined and provided with friction faces 6, or with transverse blocks 3 having friction faces 6 and reinforcmg plates 2, as in Fig. 4. In such a belt forces are transmittedto and from the web 1 through the friction ends of the transverse blocks and, as previously stated, such a belt has a tendency to chatter at high speeds. The maximum power transmitting value of such a belt, would be determined by the area of the friction ends of the stiffening blocks because, in practice, the web 1 does not have a width suflicient to bring its edges into frictional play. In case the web is of suflicient width to bring its edges into frictional play, the power transmitting capacity of the belt would be slightl increased, perhaps, but between adjacent locks, the power transmitting value would b practically negligible because of the necessary thinness of the web. Further than this, rubber webbin such as is most practicall useful in belts 0 this type, does not serve e ectively to receive or transmit forces through the edges. Heretofore the most common form of belts of this type in commercial use have embodied both an outer and an inner series of friction end blocks carried by the central web and the central web has been narrow enough to avoid frictional contact with the friction cones.

In order to gain additional frictional surface, without materially decreasing lateral flexibility of the belt, I chamfer the adjacent corners of the blocks 2 and 3 to form seats 7 and 8 immediately adjacent the edges of web 1, and in these chamfers I seat a continuous strip 9 of friction material 9 which, conveniently, may be half of any ordinary well-known V-belt, the lateral dimension of which, i. e., the dimension parallel with the width of web 1, may be comparatively small and the radial dimension 0 which may be f as desired within the limits of ready lateral flexibility of the material. The outer face of each strip 9, in the form of belt shown in Fig. 3 is beveled so as to lie in the plane of .2 1 messes the friction ends of the transverse blocks 2 and 3 and in the form shownin Fig). 4 the .outer faceofeach' stript is similarly eveled and lies in the plane of the adjacent friction" 5 ends of the blocks 3.

In the form shown in Fig. 5, which prob o ably is not quite as eflicient as theform shown in Fig. 3, the web .1 is transversely stiifened by the cross blocks 2' and 3 the inner corner of each of which is chamfered to form the seats 7 and 8, andin these seats is secured the friction stri 9, the outer face of which is properly beve ed to frictionally engage friction cones of the 'transmissio mechanism. In this form the radial dimension of each strip 9 is relatively somewhat greater than in the other forms and the ends of the transverse blocks 2 and 3' are not provided with friction material, the entire ,4 transmission of force being to and through nished by the web 1 and the latera the outer faces of the strips 9, 9. The flexibility of a belt of the type shown in Fig. 5 is' within the range of racticability because the necessary longitudinal strength is furflexibility, of the elements 9, 9 is due to the relative narrowness of the elementsin the plane of the web 1. I h 1 I claim as m invention.

1. An edge rive belt comprising a relatively thin main I web, spaced transverse blocks secured to said web, and two strips of friction material secured to the opposlte ends of the transverse blocks and bridging therebetween, said friction stri s having a relatively small dimension in the lane of the web and a dimension transverse of the web substantiallygreater than the t ickness of the web.

2. An edge drive belt comprising a relatively thin main web, spaced transverse blocks secured to said web and having inclined friction ends, and two stri s of friction material secured to the opposlte ends of the transverse blocks and bridging therebetween, said friction stri s having a relatively small dimension in t e plane of the web, and .a dimension transversely of the, web I substantially greater than the thickness of the web, each of said strips having an in-- dlined outer face in the plane of the adjacent friction, ends of the blocks. y

In witness whereof, I, PAUL B. Rnnvns, have hereunto set my handat Columbus,

Indiana, this 4th day of Nov., A. D. one

thousand nine hundred and thirty one.

PAUL B. REEVES. 

